Blimey, building a special swimming pool just so that you can host a competitive event that you said you would host - whatever next?

" Synchronised swimming has kept its place at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi after the Commonwealth Games Federation recommended the discipline be retained.

The CGF’s executive board recommendation followed an 18-month review to the games sports programme where race walking also looked threatened.

Delhi, host of the 2010 games, had asked to remove the sports from its programme, citing logistical difficulties, including the need to build a new pool especially for synchronised swimming.

The compromise involves staging synchronised swimming in the diving pool, following a dispensation by the sport’s world governing body FINA. "

(Via Latest News Synchronised Swimming retained in 2010 Commonwealth Games: .)

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Display-boards with illustrations of the various options are displayed in the lobby of Ironmonger Row Baths. Here is the consultation document [LINK].

"Islington Council, in partnership with EC1 New Deal for Communities (NDC), is very keen to improve the range of leisure, sport and community facilities available at these sites.

Having carried out some initial research with local groups, including schools, sports clubs and tenants' associations, we have worked up some refurbishment ideas for both facilities and the public space around them.

From Friday 9 November to Monday 10 December we are consulting with local people and centre users to find out what they think of these ideas. It is also a chance to find out what kinds of sports, leisure and community facilities people want to see in the area."

(Via Ironmonger Row Baths and Finsbury Leisure Centre Consultation: .)

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